iPod is Raping the Rapists who Raped My Village. Terre Thaemlitz

An economic overview of contemporary audio production

During the past 12 years or so that I’ve been commercially releasing electronic music, I’ve noticed a trend: every 4 or 5 years a major electronic music distributor goes out of business, taking a ton of small record labels with it. In 2004, it was EFA, the most important electronic music distributor in Germany. “So what?” you ask. To which I add, “Distributors are generally money driven fuckers of the worst kind anyway, pushing shit music in the same way book distributors try to pass off ‘Best Sellers’ as literature. Good riddance. Fight the power, etcetera, etcetera.”